An emerging field of psychology could be called the "science of happiness" because it examines the effects of positive emotions.

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I don't know about you, but I am ready for a little break from bad news. Madoff made off, unemployment is rising, solid families are losing their homes, and stress is ever underfoot. It would be so easy to slip under the waves of fear, depression or just plain anger.

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Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …

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"Science suggests that when we experience genuine, heartfelt positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative emotions, we cross a psychological tipping point on the other side of which we function at our very best. Knowing the importance and promise of positivity is one thing.

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"Nobody comes along to you as a psychiatrist and says, 'Make me happy.' They just want the pain taken away," Professor Gordon Parker, executive director of the Black Dog Institute, says. Parker started reading about positive psychology before his meeting with the Dalai Lama for  …

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Although we may have a genetic "set point" that positions us toward a predetermined level of happiness (or misery), there are a number of "happiness strategies" that have been shown to be effective for increasing our enjoyment of life.

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Martin Seligman, one of America's top academic psychologists and its leading happiness guru, is visiting Australian on a lecture tour sponsored by, of all outfits, the Australian Institute of Management.

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Do you have any idea what you're worth to your company? Not your human capital -- no doubt you and your employer are well aware of your talents, experience, and education.

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Both scientists and laymen are turning to "positive psychology" as a way to study happiness and even make their own lives happier. But can happiness be learned in a classroom?

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The smiley face, that symbol of empty-headed cheerfulness, is a visage no New Yorker (or happiness researcher, in fact) could love. So, in the following pages, several New York graphic designers offer their own riffs on the icon

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